How Superman Would End the War

WHAT IT MEANS TO BE NEUTRAL

by Dorothy “Thompson

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FEBRUARY 27, 1940

THERE’S BIG MONEY IN FANTASY

AS IMAGINARY MAN popped out of an imaginary planet
less than two years ago. Today be is one of the most pop

ular of all comic strip characters. He is Superman, a character
who combines the best talents of a Rebin Hood and a god. and
every day his feats of strength, speed and benevolence bring
thrills to ions of newspaper and comic magazine readers,
Co-fathers of this amazing character are Jerry Siegel and
Joe Shuster, both under 30. As boyhood friends in Cleveland,
Siegel and Shuster dreamed of what they would do if they were

the world’s strongest men, Superman is the extension of their
dream, and proof that Americans still like their fantasy raw,

ACTION COMICS, with regular installments of PERRY SIEGEL WRITES a detailed script for Super- SHUSTER FOLLOWS Siegel's script for his draw-
Superman, leads the field of comic magazines (latest oman, with dialogue and action, after the sequences ings. ‘One of the team’s brighter ideas was to give
publishing sensation) with 600,000 copies a month, have been discussed and plotted in a six-man Superman a double identity; as a timid, bespec-
and Superman Quarterly sells a million. Mews- conference, composed of Siegel, Shuster, two editors, tacked reporter, Clark Kent, he scores scoops on his
paper syndication reaches 4,500,000 readers daily. the publisher and the circulation manager, own amazing deeds, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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HE'S HOLDING THE
FUEWRER HOSTAGE

ADOLF HITLER AND JOSEF STALIN—
WE PRONOUNCE

MODERN
HISTORY'S GREATEST CRIME —
UNPROVOKED AGGRESSION AGAINST
DEFENSELESS COUNTRIES.
ILE. WHAT 1S
YOUR JUDGEMENT?

SIEGEL AND SHUSTER GAVE SUPERMAN A BIC JOB in this episode, when they assigned
him to solve the international situation just for Loox, but such tasks are nothing new
for him. He once stopped a war “somewhere in South America” by dumping a muni-
tions profiteer into the trenches for a dose of his own medicine. On another occasion
he plucked two opposing generals from their tents and told them to settle their
differences with bare fists. They knew no “differences,” shook hands and made peace.

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